What a busy week it's been!
Monday afternoon was spent at the Pirate Ship park with the twins, now as we all know play parks in the UK are a bit lacking, we have the occasional exciting climbing frame or swing set, but that is most certainly not the case here! There was a giant wooden pirate ship with a huge slide (which the twins went on, a bit terrifying letting 3 year olds climb up to a 2 storey slide! But they made it and had fun, a bit of adventure and risk never hurt anyone!!)
Sat soaking up the sun looking at the Pirate Ship part of the park.
Tuesday was spent ferrying the boys to swimming and working on Phonics with F (I'd forgotten how crap I am at phonics!!! They annoy me!) then in the evening I had my first French lesson. Now that was an experience! I thought that after 10 years of not speaking French all my school French would just come flooding back to me, but no it did not! I sat perplexed as the teacher rambled on about things I had no idea about (all in French may I add) and just felt like curling up in a ball and crying every time she asked me something! It couldn't have come on a worse day as well, I was feeling horrifically homesick and just wanted someone to talk to other than the LNE and husband. I left the class wanting to have a good weep but thankfully there's a 1km walk home up hill so I was forced to man up! I was still feeling shaky when I got back and LNE must have realised because she told me to have a lie in the next morning. So off to bed with a cup of peppermint tea I went and slept relatively soundly, thank goodness!
Wednesday was lovely, everyone was at school for the whole day so I was able to do my French homework (which I totally nailed by the way!) and potter around washing and ironing, it was blissful! In the evening LNE and I had a fab time with the new episode of Spooks and a glass of wine (Mumma, so much for them not drinking!). As you can see the lie in on Wednesday morning did me the world of good!
That brings us to today. After a morning of grumpy children and lots of tears H and I decided to go out for a trip, now most 7 year olds I know would want to go to a play park or something for the afternoon, but not this one! We headed to the Museum of Modern Art (I think I'm going to leave Luxembourg a little more cultured than I arrived!) which was amazing! I actually really enjoyed it, even though we only got to spend a little time there. We then headed over to the Chocolate House opposite the Palace of the Grand Duke (yes, Luxembourg has a Grand Duke, isn't it just fabulous?!) Now this cafe and chocolate shop was just something else! I'm going to try and take some pictures the next time I go back, because I'm definitely going back! After ordering 'une enfant chocolat blanc et un chocolat tirimisu merci' we were presented with huge cups of steamed milk with a chocolate covered spoon next to it. The idea is to plonk the spoon into the milk and let all the chocolatey goodness melt into the milk. I was amazing! Just as we were finishing the lovely rich chocolat chaud H noticed that there were cars in the Palace driveway and the Grand Duke was going out! Such an amazing sight! There were armed guards and policemen, it was wonderful!
The chocolat chaud set us up for the bitterly cold (it's only 9 degrees, so not actually cold, but after a month in Greece I've gone soft!) walk home. I then had another French lesson, which I had been dreading, but was actually rather pleasant!
We're now up to date :)
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